The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), one of the world’s most respected medical journals, has weighed in on a Presidential candidate for the first time in its 208-year history. It is also only the fifth time that all of its editors, now 34 of them, have signed an editorial, according to the Washington Post. […]
Comments from AAPS President Paul Kempen, MD, PhD: Today, I was greatly dismayed to read an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), apparently signed by all (over 30) members of that editorial staff. The editors have taken a unanimous political view, suggesting the upcoming election will allow Americans to force those dangerously […]
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has taken the unprecedented step of jumping into electoral politics, in an editorial apparently signed by all of the 30-plus members of the editorial staff.[1] It states that: “our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths […]
Did you feel frustrated watching the vice-presidential candidates’ debate? According to Sen. Kamala Harris, more than 200,000 premature American deaths are Trump’s fault. According to Vice-President Pence, China is to blame. Biden has a Plan. (More lockdowns? Not clear.) Trump touts rapid development of treatments and vaccines by American scientists and industry. There are many […]
Will the huge rollout of COVID tests help end the pandemic—or assure that it will never end? We have had pseudo-epidemics before. In 2006, much of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was shut down, and 1,000 employees were furloughed or quarantined, because whooping cough was thought to be spreading like wildfire based on 142 positive PCR tests. […]
Volume 76, no. 10 October 2020 The worldwide depression and chaos from the response to COVID-19 might be just a dress rehearsal for the global totalitarian technocracy so long envisioned. The “climate crisis” wasn’t generating enough fear to motivate people to change their behavior drastically. It is also easier to persuade people that they could […]
The announcement that President Trump and the First Lady have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 shows that the need for early treatment to prevent serious illness and death from COVID-19 is extremely urgent, states the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS). The number of studies on hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has reached 126, with 76 peer-reviewed. The […]
If you watched the Trump/Biden debate, you likely thought it was a slugfest, but were you able to figure out the candidates’ positions? The press might want to ask for clarification, or follow up on these health-related items, with reference to the transcript as well as this listener’s impression. Health insurance Trump: “I got rid […]
All of us are affected by the constraints on normal life—especially parents of school-aged children. From the graph below, it looks as though the pandemic is over. It shows the number of daily new “cases”—that is, the number of positive PCR tests. This number will never be zero, and will surely increase as the government […]
Is your life “on hold” pending a COVID-19 vaccine? Do you want to be first in line, a late adopter, or a skeptic? Do we have to give it to everyone to find out what is in it? Florian Krammer, professor of microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has compiled an […]